{"id":849,"date":"2025-11-22T16:29:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T16:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=849"},"modified":"2025-11-22T16:30:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T16:30:37","slug":"left-hand-progress-3-5-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/22\/left-hand-progress-3-5-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Left Hand Progress: 3.5 Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I started focusing on my left hand 3.5 weeks ago. Every day I spend some time with just the left hand on the practice pad. I&#8217;m trying to get my fingers able to pull down the rebound instead of my wrist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can tell it&#8217;s doing much better than my first day.  There&#8217;s some strength and speed in my fingers I didn&#8217;t have before.  I&#8217;m able to get a nice snappy sound out of it.  I cant go infinite.  The stick wants to move around and eventually I lose momentum until it stops.  But my streaks are getting longer.  I find the key is to hold the stick &#8220;just so&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s my progress video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LeftHandProgress3.5Weeks.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started focusing on my left hand 3.5 weeks ago. Every day I spend some time with just the left hand on the practice pad. I&#8217;m trying to get my fingers able to pull down the rebound instead of my wrist. I can tell it&#8217;s doing much better than my first day. There&#8217;s some strength [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drumming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}